Physical Partitions in SAP BW

Hi Experts,
Our current implementation of SAP BW is on Db2 UDB  (the system is technically upgraded to 7.0 but the objects are still based on BW 3.5)
Database DB6
Operating System AIX
We are trying to find if physical partitioning is possible for infocubes,DSO, datasources.
Is it done by the Basis and DB team or Db2 takes care of partitioning by itself.
My apologies, if it has been already posted, I am a part of BW team, so not sure of this question.
Please Suggest. Any docs/notes are appreciated
Thanks
El

Hi El,
we support two kinds of partitioning in SAP NetWeaver BW on DB2:
1. Hash partitioning with the DB2 Database Partitioning Feature: tables are distributed over several database partitions based on a hash key. Performance of complex queries is improved because the queries are executed in parallel on the database partitions. Maintenance operations like index built, statistics collection, data deletion is also improved by execting in parallel.
2. Multi-dimensional clustering (MDC): The table data is clustered along one or more columns. This speeds up queries which restrict on the clustering columns as well as large delete operations (for example, deletion of InfoPackages from PSA tables).
You find details about these options and how to implement them in our administration guide on the SAP Service Marketplace (http://service.sap.com/instguides: Folder SAP NetWeaver - SAP NetWeaver 7.0 (2004s) - Operations: Database Specific Guides: "SAP NW 7.0 or higher Admin Guide: DB2 for LUW").
Best regards,
Brigitte Bläser
SAP on DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows Development

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